East Haven man charged with knifepoint robbery in Hamden

By Register Staff
| on December 6, 2017

HAMDEN — An East Haven man was charged Monday with an August armed robbery of a Hamden store.

George Lopez, 23, of Tyler Street, was arrested by warrant when he appeared in Superior Court in Meriden on unrelated charges. According to online records from the Department of Correction, Lopez has been jailed since Aug. 28 on charges stemming from a New Haven police pursuit.

According to Hamden police, on Aug. 26 at about 8:15 p.m., officers responded to Plato’s Closet, 2335 Dixwell Ave. on the report of a robbery with a knife.

Police learned that an individual, who was later identified as Lopez, entered the store wielding a knife. Lopez ordered the female clerk to open the cash register and stole an undisclosed amount of money, the release said.

Officer Paul Calamita conducted an “extensive investigation,” which led to the application of an arrest warrant for Lopez, police said. The court approved the arrest warrant application.

In the Hamden case, Lopez was charged with first-degree robbery and held in lieu of $100,000 bail.

DOC records show is is being held on a total of $477,000 bail. He has seven pending criminal cases, according to the state’s judicial website.